CHAPTER 127: CHAPTER 127: APOCALYPSE, I AM NOT THE HOLY MOTHER 33

Originally, Lin Shuangshuang didn’t understand why Li Man wanted to get close to Red Jade’s belly, but just now when Lin Shuangshuang looked at Red Jade’s belly, her gaze happened to catch sight of the eggs Red Jade had been hiding underneath!

These eggs were plump and smooth, and their gleaming whiteness resembled fine Mutton Fat Jade; if you didn’t know, you would never think these were spider eggs!

The reason these eggs were so beautiful was that Red Jade had been transferring all the energy she had been tirelessly accumulating from eating insects into these eggs, filling them with abundant energy, which made them so beautiful!

This is only the beginning of the apocalypse, and although all creatures have mutated, they are not yet very powerful. When the mutations are complete, the largest insects will be no taller than a human, and the biggest spiders will at most mutate to the size of a millstone!

But Red Jade is different. From the very beginning of her mutation, she was larger than other spiders, and with Lin Shuangshuang providing enough food and sufficient energy, she even molted twice, mutating to the size of a small room!

Currently, very few people know about such particularly large mutated creatures like Red Jade, but those who have undergone the third mutation call such creatures Special Mutants! Special Mutants are so rare that even among hundreds of millions of creatures, not one might appear!

The traits of Special Mutants are early mutation, enormous size, and extremely powerful Attack Power! While humans can handle ordinary mutated creatures more easily, when faced with a Special Mutant, regardless of the creature, many people will die if confronted!

Despite Special Mutants being terrifying, many people still seek them out because the energy within a Special Mutant is hundreds of times that of other creatures!

If humans can eat the meat of Special Mutants, their physical attributes can increase by more than twentyfold! If superpower users eat the meat of a Special Mutant, their superpowers can even upgrade without barriers!

This is just the effect of eating a Special Mutant. Because of the powerful energy of Special Mutants, they are extremely hard to breed. Even if they have offspring, they are typically very rare, requiring the mother to transfer a massive amount of energy into the eggs or young in her belly for them to successfully hatch!

And because of the mother’s care, these young often contain energy more abundant than that of their Special Mutant mother, making each one something people would fight over fiercely.

Red Jade is indeed Lucky. If it weren’t for meeting Lin Shuangshuang, who can supply her with an unlimited amount of insects to eat, at least ninety percent of her brood would die! Moreover, because Lin Shuangshuang treats Red Jade as a pet and never intends to exploit her, she utterly forgot that Red Jade is like a walking gold mine, even more enticing than gold itself.

If Li Man knew Red Jade was a Special Mutant and knew eating Red Jade’s eggs could make her stronger, this would explain why Li Man was willing to stay, risking everything. She is exactly the type of person who would risk anything for benefits! Not to mention the irresistible temptation of enhancing one’s own abilities. It would be strange if Li Man didn’t take the risk upon seeing it!

And if Lin Shuangshuang’s guess is true, then it confirms another more terrifying hypothesis of hers: Li Man might be reborn, just like her! Otherwise, it can’t be explained why Li Man would target Red Jade’s eggs!

In fact, if Lin Shuangshuang herself wasn’t reborn, she would never have such a bold speculation, but given her own experiences, the more Lin Shuangshuang thought about it, the more she felt this guess was correct!

She couldn’t help but recall her past life with Li Man, when Li Man often seemed to know some information in advance, then took targeted actions to gain benefits, but at that time, Lin Shuangshuang, blinded by Li Man’s cleverness and cunning, never thought of these things, only assuming Li Man was sharp enough to foresee the future.

Even knowing Li Man is reborn, Lin Shuangshuang didn’t have the same heightened tension and subconscious fear of Li Man’s cunning as before!

Because Lin Shuangshuang predicted what Li Man would want to do, the most terrifying opponent is not one who is clever, strong, and ruthless, but one you know nothing about!

But now, Lin Shuangshuang is not totally unaware of Li Man, and she even knows Li Man’s purpose in advance, while Li Man doesn’t know she is also reborn! Now Li Man is in the open, and she in the dark, which means she has the upper hand over Li Man, boosting Lin Shuangshuang’s confidence in facing her!

As she once again glanced at Li Man, who was smiling and adeptly socializing, Lin Shuangshuang remained alert, but she was no longer tense or lacking confidence because she couldn’t guess Li Man’s intentions.

Even how deep her schemes are and how good she is at disguising, she is just a person with desires that are stronger than the ordinary, and her desires are her biggest flaw! As long as she grabs hold of this point, Li Man’s goals are no longer so hard to guess.

Li Man had no idea her purpose had been seen through by Lin Shuangshuang; she chatted casually with Mi Lu and Ma Ying, while secretly calculating ways to get the spider eggs beneath Red Jade’s belly.

Those spider eggs, with their jade-like sheen and beautiful appearance, indicated they were filled with extreme energy. She didn’t need many, just eating two would be enough to boost her Combat Power tenfold! Then it would be easy as pie to kill Lin Shuangshuang.

Li Man didn’t feel much about Lin Shuangshuang’s sword, but the killing intent attached to that strike made her very concerned! If Lin Shuangshuang had merely acted on impulse due to worry for her pet, it wasn’t a big deal.

Li Man believed that with her abilities, she could charm Lin Shuangshuang into seeing her as a close friend, and then exploit her completely!

But when she ordered Yang Duo and Yang Ziqi to sow discord between Lin Shuangshuang and her friends, they failed! She even personally tested and found that although Lin Shuangshuang seemed cold, indifferent, and solitary, she was actually watertight and even secretly on guard against her.

Li Man couldn’t discern Lin Shuangshuang’s attitude towards her, but adhering to her practice of leaving no potential threats unchecked, she resolved to eliminate Lin Shuangshuang—an uncertain factor might lead to an earthquake, and Li Man didn’t want to one day, due to negligence, fall into Lin Shuangshuang’s hands.

Lin Shuangshuang still did not know that even though she had seen through Li Man’s objective, she hadn’t realized that just one face meeting had been enough for Li Man to notice her wariness and plan to completely eliminate her!

Lin Shuangshuang naturally didn’t understand Li Man’s mind; she was looking at the busy crowd, contemplating whether she should trust her teammates after all. Someone like Li Man couldn’t be entirely guarded against by one person alone.

After dinner, while everyone was digesting, Lin Shuangshuang openly sat with Ma Yuan and Song Yuhang, without avoiding Li Man to prevent her suspicion, but keeping just enough distance so Li Man couldn’t hear their conversation.

Lin Shuangshuang’s expression remained calm, but the words she spoke almost made Ma Yuan and Song Yuhang’s faces change dramatically!